Over the last 5+ years, we have stayed away from providing any kind of advisory. One of the biggest reasons for us not giving tips is , as a brokerage there is a vested interest in making clients trade, which creates a conflict of interest. We, unlike most brokerages out there, did not want to give tips/advise just to generate revenue rather than for the value of it. Instead, we tried to educate and share knowledge as much as possible using Varsity, Zconnect, and Tradingqna. We introduced backtesting, expert advisors, and advanced charting through our trading platforms Kite and Pi. We built Quant to help analyze personal trading behavior, and more.

We also started the 60 day challenge to give an additional incentive to traders to stay profitable and not just to trade for the heck of it. It got us the desired results, but interacting with our 1 lakh clients, we knew there could be more that can be done to build a community of winning traders.

We observed that:

Most people don’t have the bandwidth or the background to spend hours trying to master trading the markets. What makes it even more difficult in India is that there is no practical introduction to trading and investing in schools or colleges making it tougher for people to comprehend the concepts.

People end up following tipsters paying thousands of rupees a month. Such tipsters come with no credibility, and there is no real data to prove whether their tips actually make money or not, and more importantly the nature of tips (buy above this, sell below this, etc) don’t teach you anything about how to invest or trade the markets.

That said, we also realized there is this small community of traders who are extremely talented and passionate. But, the biggest problem they face are:

Not enough trading capital. A client with Rs 1lk returns 10% in a month which is brilliant, but that is just Rs 10,000, which in today’s world, is not enough to survive trading full time (more than 90% of our traders have less than Rs 1lk in their account). To earn more, he starts over trading taking bigger risks, and eventually ends up making a loss. Most of the times before blossoming into a great trader, the career ends.

Introducing opentrade.in, our answer that will hopefully be the solution to the above pain points. Here is how it works:

Clients of Zerodha who have a positive track record on their accounts (stars) with us may opt to register on Opentrade. We will select the best traders after careful scrutiny. Their identities will be kept anonymous, and they will all be called by unique star names – Sirius, Canopus, etc.

The stars will be tagged based on the nature of their trades – investor, arbitrageur, swing trader, etc.

The Quant reports of their trading activities at Zerodha will be made public on the platform.

All clients of Zerodha will now have an option to analyze these reports, and follow their favorite stars for a subscription fee that will be shared with the stars.

From the time you start following a star, you will get his/her realtime trade updates via Email and on the platform. You will also be able to track all open positions and holdings of the stars.

To ensure privacy, quantities on positions and trade updates will be normalized. Also, trade updates will be limited to only highly liquid contracts – top 500 stocks, and F&O on equity, currency and commodity.

You will be able to follow one or multiple stars of your choosing.

By putting up these talented stars on a pedestal, we give them an opportunity to earn an additional stream of revenue and stay focused and profitable in their trading activities. The more profitable this star stays, more number of paying followers he will add, ensuring that the star focuses on using his talent to carefully pick trading and investing opportunities.

As a subscriber, learning from and tracking star traders live should give you the leverage needed to push yourself to be a part of the winning community.

We are going live by end of Jan 2016, if you wish to get on the invite list visit opentrade.in

If you are a profitable trader with a good track record and like to be featured as a star, email us on [email protected]

Please note: Support for Opentrade will be online-only and the Zerodha support team won’t be able to answer any queries on the phone.

Founder & CEO @ Zerodha, team working towards breaking all barriers that I personally faced as a retail trader for over a decade. Love playing poker, basketball, and guitar. Getting body fat % in single digit is the next personal endeavor :) .

I appreciate your efforts to improve upon the trading experience but few things I would like to put here for your organization primarily and your clients in general. These are not sugar coated words…

Observations:
1. Your customer service is not at all professional. Most of them do not even know what are the organizations capability, products and services etc.
2. When you have problem they will try to push it on you and pretend as if there are not responsible for anything.
3. Recently I took OPENTRADE. There is not way to purchase single credit and you have to purchase 5 credits. Now if you do not like that particular “Star” trading portfolio you want to change to the next, you loose your credit. This is crazy. The customer should be able to browse through any star within the 1 month period.
If I do not like the service then I cannot refund and what happens to to other 4 credits if I have not availed of it. This does not show any professionalism. I am actually facing these issues.
I hope you will look into it.

Where every broker working here just for making money by charging high or providing tips asking customers to trade very often I have seen traditional brokers trading in customer’s accounts, Zerodha is the first and perhaps only which is trying to help traders to learn how to trade better themselves, it shows Zerodha is not here just for making money. If there would have been history of Indian Stock Brokering Time should be divided into Pre-Zerodha and After-Zerodha 🙂 Well thanks of making Indian stock traders to international level. Opentrade will be very helpful for many traders and it will be far better than Tips providers who don’t bother about money management, It would be great if trades of STARS are notified real time in trading terminal too. I checked KITE (web based trading) recently and WOW !!!! trading experience in KITE is superb. I have never liked web based trading before using kite.
Its smooth fast and does perfectly what it is supposed for. charts are better than nest plus. Even on mobile it performed better Nest Mobile. Congratulations !!! Team Zerodha for Kite and Opentrade. 🙂

Yeah.No doubt in that.Kite is exceptionally good and user friendly.But lately,kite as well as Q(backoffice app) is working very slow.And all other sites are working normal(so no problem with my connection or anything).Just having some issues with these two.So as a investor and a zerodha customer,would be really glad if this issue is resolved as soon as possible.
ThankYou

Nithin kamath can you provide free quoting of all nse bse mcx scrips on a small platform like the metatrader app there is no need for you guys to build a new app dedicated to that kite is good but every time I have to login and provide passwords even if it is to just check the markets the money control app is good but doesnt allow for technical analysis the metatrader app is super awesome and quick for low bandwidth conn (india come on) but so for a forex broker named gci only offers 10 nse scrips I have to make do with that.There is a facility for you other brokers to add there acccount in metatrader you guys can provide a special password for all your account holders to access market data via metatrader I am a zerodha trader

Nitin sir:- one thing i would like to change in zerodha is , policy of pledging the shares for margin…as of now, per script value should be 50k for pledging which is impossible for small trades…plz do something on this…

ok thanks please make an app like metatrader ,low data requirement , quick startup , atleast all the indicators in metatrader 4, no req of authentication for position monitoring and analysis , there is no requirement for trading via the app kite is enough for than purpose.
forgive me if i am wrong but cant you guys associate with the metatrader company there site has an option for this

In the first release we wont’ be showing quantity of open positions/holdings. So if I am holding Nifty futures, it will just say Buy Nifty future (will not show any quantity). Only if the star trader is open to showing his positions to the public can become a star on the platform.

Great initiative – However when it comes to F&O hardly anyone who is successful trades naked positions, so with hedging knowing quantities involved is supremely important. One way of hiding actual quantity but still giving the followers the complete picture is to show multiples. So if a star has the following trade setup

Hi Nitin
Will you pls make it possible to buy one credit at a time so that small trader can buy and follow their star.Moreover star who are using algo trading may not be included as its not possible for small traders to take positions in that high frequency manner.

Great initiative! However, as far as I can see, you still haven’t implemented normalization, have you? Can you please share your release plan? Without some hint of quantity, it is not possible to follow a star trader. Thanks a lot in advance.

Best,
Arjun

PS: I am already a user and I have used 5 credits. However, the ROI is zero since you do not publish quantitities

zerodha team !!
you are making unbelieveable moves.. many innovative weapons !!!
its pleasure to be a part of zerodha family where you teach people how to get knowledge to trade rather than to give tips. i congratulate all of you for this great ethics !
thanks ZERODHA team !!!

Think of allowing the star trader alert as semi automated trade on the follower’s Pi terminal, with follower’s position size. I assume you will add drawdown measurement of each star and some way of depicting risk/reward/drawdown ratio of each star’s trade/trades/portfolio

Sir,This opentrade u mean suppose Mr.X has bought shares in say for eg Ashok Leyland n is sure of going up ,will he give us target where to exit or we have to just follow wherever he exits v too should exit please let me know Mr. Nitin. Thank you

Ashok, you will get to know when the person exited. He will not give target and all of that.
Btw, are you the same Ashok Kukreja, who was our client in the reliance money days. IF you are, it has been a long time, how are you doing? 🙂

Hi Mr. Nitin, Good Evening yes I am the same Ashok Kukreja who was with u in Reliance money. Bcoz of u I have joined Zerodha. Long time, you got married good. I am in the same house plz drop in with your wife we will welcome u warmly. God bless u n ur family. Thanking you, looking forward to meet u .yours Ashok Kukreja

Good afternoon Mr. Nitin, hope u had received my message earlier, sent few days back. I am same Ashok Kukreja, how r u ?. Nitin Sir u have done many things for your clients guided made it easier etc etc. One suggestion selling Equities in carry forward cnc style how much investments that much stock ( on sell) v can buy puts but one thing they keep losing premium n the other is the size of lot is very big. So as u have introduced many good things y can consider this just suggestions. Yours Ashok Kukreja

Hi Ashok, you should come to our office sometime. We are very close to where we had the reliance money office. Carrying forward equity shorts are not allowed in India, until the regulators put a mechanism we can’t do it.

Sir,This opentrade u mean suppose Mr.X has bought shares in say for eg Ashok Leyland n is sure of going up ,will he give us target where to exit or we have to just follow wherever he exits v too should exit please let me know Mr. Nitin. Thank you

Pi tools
1. Fibonacci extensions, ray and channel tool would be much appreciated.
2. In Fibonacci extensions and retracements it would be nice to also have an option for user defined Fibonacci percentages.
3. By using a short key to snap to candle/bar High and Low while using tools would be a really helpful feature to have.

sir, when u introduce next updated pi please add andrews pitch fork (apf) and wooddies cci indicator sir please its my humble request.
Also people who started following star trades if its not against the rule can u all share ur experience, means able to catch star traders trade, how profitable it is compare to ur earlier trade. coz I to want to start following…….
regards

What about Trend Blaster Indicator, would it also be added in new version of Pi, Also when the new version of Pi is scheduled to be released. We are eagerly awaiting new version of Pi & Mobile version of Kite.

Best innovative idea till now. I’ve more than 1lk rs last year. This is the best chance for me to start with new hope.
They should not charge for atleast one month so that people can judge them and decide wether to subscribe him or not.

Sir this is good initiative but as you told that 90% of your clients have less then 1L their acc. So we all are small treaders. But it is very unfortunate that from 1 Dec. 2015 Zerodha have changed policy to provide colletral margin on pledging equity holding now minimum equity value must be above 50K to get margin for trading. So plz change this rule and provide us flexibility to pledge any value equity to get margin for treading as small invester don’t invest 50K in single equity !!
So please review your policy as earlier so that we can tread.
Regards,
Vijay

This is the concept prevailing in developed markets, was waiting for a long time to get implemented in Indian markets. Glad that Zerodha is introducing it.

I have already following the similar concept, subscribers who are following me, instead of sending SMS/email alerts to subscribers, the system will place automatic orders on all customers account immediately. This is made possible using Symphony Fintech Algo execution platform.

Can Zerodha implement the feature of auto trades on subscribers account? If possible,it would be great, then I can move all my existing customers to Zerodha platform from Composite Edge.

instead of asking to follow other traders why don’t you make effort to bring them together to conduct few sessions and provide training so that any one can learn and trade.
we want to learn fishing don’t want fish

Nitin, you are absolutely right. will the stars share the details(later or end of the day). why they selected the script for buy and what the reason for exist so and so. if they explain really will help for learning

It is very good idea, but how one chose a star from the list of stars to follow him , how can we judge who is the best to follow so that we can make more profit and also the star make more money for his afford…

Would it be possible to categorize star traders in Open trade based on scripts for example i would like to follow a star trader in Reliance and match my compare my trading accordingly.
Is that the way its going to be ?

a)I also read one of your comments on the next release of Pi . Please consider the volume bars in color. It will make life easy for trading on Pi.
b) Lock position for horizontal lines so that they dont shift on scrolling.

Honestly i like to share here that indicators in charts are a industry by itself, The more you use them the crazier you will get. Stay simple & watch the screen .

Couple of questions
1. How do the followers know where to exit. Will there be some kind of alert? Watching all the time is not feasible.i guess, Sl orders will not be revealed.
2. How will stars know who r following. Should they chat with the followers.
3. How will one learn the ideas behind the trades. I guess no star will disclose his idea.

1. You will get to know as soon as the star has exited
2. We don’t want any interaction between star and followers. Will put unnecessary pressure on the stars.
3. If you keep following the star, I think u will start getting a hang on what they are doing very soon.

I have over traded in options and lost lots of money, currently in net loss of huge amount taken over loans. I don’t even have capital to start with.
My only mistake, over trading in options.
I can share positional equity trades which will be profitable for cash delivery based investors. I see a hope that this Income can generate funds for me to raise capital. Is this possible? I am not a paid tip provider or financial adviser in personal life, but I have good sources in non-f&o related stocks.

Hello
There is one option in icicidirect called click to gain n click to invest where they provide intraday, weekly n month short or long tips (85% accurate) for free. I think zerodha should come up with such options too…

Zerodha is simply superb.. it’s a great innovative idea to give something to the customers when most of others take everything from them. thanks for helping others to grow.. we are with you Nithin Bhai !!!

NIthin sir, Please update Zerodha Mobile for Windows Phone users. Its taking more time to load and to use. If good version provided, Zerodha is the only mobile app going to rock compared with all other brokerage firms.

Many Congrats to Zerodha for this initiative …
Following requests are still pending, I wish they will be fulfilled soon…

1) Bracket order in commodities in Kite and PI
2) Kite on Android Mobile
3) Draw Down Control setting at least for intraday (MIS) trade. This way position will be auto squared off if it goes below certain “User Set” draw down level , which may be some fixed amount …say 500 Rs. or which may be % of capital say 1 or 2% draw down limit. This will enforce loss control discipline for loser like me.
4) Easy(using keyboard) or Auto Scrip shift in Kite Charts. Manually clicking is Really cumbersome.
5) Price voice alert in Kite — If scrips crosses above or below set value, user gets a voice/popup notification.
6) Paper trade on Charts facility. There should be a Big historical database of many years and a facility for a trader to practice mock trading with some Virtual Cash. This way trader can sharpen his skills himself.
7) Some Programming language to create own indicators/system for kite.

Hi nithin
What i understood is…we follow our star trader and we get to know which script he is buying selling, we should not ask why,obviously… That part we have to understand by the time…is it correct..
What is time laps between order excution and sms..will it be instant as required in intraday

Can anyone please tell me how to follow this or any other topic of Z-connect by email, so that I get updates in email for any comments posted. Sorry to ask this in this thread, but I am unable to keep a track of the discussions , it will be a great help for me if I can get updates through emails.

Nitin there may be time lag when we got SMS or mail there will be differ in the rate at which star enter or not and also the stoploss if he already nputed so that one can enter with risk involved or not and can you please reveal whether it is bracket mis or open order?

1) other than SMS and email … I think a pop up in KITE or PI itself will do this fastest way!
2) The Star track record Profile should be comprehensive and if possible in one page like myfxbook. Please see the images attached here.
3)Any Star should have zerodha rating as well as follower rating depending upon his performance.
4) Any Zerodha 60 days challenge winner trader should be able to claim Star or atleast Winner position., which should enable him to start his follower business, this way he will be more focused on making right decisions to keep his herd with him.
5) There should be separate options Follow a star , or follow a zerodha 60 day winner. Zerodha may share its 10% revenue generated with zerodha 60 day winner if he gets some following and this way if more brokerage is generated. This is just like zerodha referral scheme. This way if anybody decided to follow a winner he may not have to Pay the subscription charges. Due to brokerage sharing the charges are taken care of themselves. But If one follows to many winners there may be issue with how and which winner will be paid. So for that I suggest give an option to let the user follow one and only one winner on any given day and thats all.
regards,

If you disclose real time “Trading Activity”, this may impact strategy of Trader.
Additionally, If there are huge Followers, then they may trade identical to their Star.
This will mislead whole game of actual star.
Any thoughts ?

Sir, we expect a better user friendly and improved app of zerodha trading platform…The present zerodha android version app is not so user friendly, had lot of hurdles to put an order in that. And also like other brokers if zerodha starts margin funding for a small interest it would be nice to small investors like me.

Dear Sir,
The concept of following star trader is very good. However, I feel, mostly the trades will be in fno segment where the gains as well losses are more. Besides, one needs,substantial fund in his account. Will there be intraday trades in equity segment?
Nevertheless, good initiative by you for a loosing trader like me.

Excellent Nithin sir, you have been an excellent adviser about the market, really appreciate these kind of thinking, Thank you sooo much, this will definitely help us a lot to understand the core of Market…

It is a good idea ,if the Stars are marked as Equity Intra-day Star,F&O series Star,and Option series star etc.
So the traders belong to that catagory can choose those stars.Every star will have certain rules of trading.
Traders have to follow those rules strictly with sufficient margin.Otherwise traders cannot follow the trades.Traders must be ready to take long -short positions when it necessary without any doubt,as per direction of selected stars.Traders cannot quit the position in between the trades.If it do so it will be at their own risk.

There is a system, in Indian trading platform to give a clue , where the markets are heading, and which is sector is lacking (presently BANKING stocks, INFRA stocks)and which one flourishing( presently GAS stocks) , There is /was nothing wrong , on part of brokerage house either full fledged or discount brokerage house , to suggest ALL CLIENTS , which sector to Go for or avoid.. this should not be called as suggestions from TIPSTERS.

though opentrade platform that zerodha , is a WELCOME IDEA , but make it COMPLIMENTARY from team Zerodha or NK…..

Three questions Sir.
1. Will we know before subscribing what order type the star uses? Like he uses SL-M, Sl-L etc?
2. Can we know which scrips the star trades before subscribing? If not specific scrips, atleast letting us know whether he is a nifty trader or other scrips trader will help.
3. How many stars can we expect(approx)?
Thanks!

While all traders are jung ho on this, I dont believe in this approach for the simple reason the more number of traders copying a trader means that the trade wont work, the market is irrational and market moves exactly opposite of what the herd thinks and the star performer will no longer become a star performer. This also shows Zerodha has an internal insight into where the market is headed because it can track positions of various star traders who are profitable and can either front run their own accounts or take leveraged positions against the herd so that they are profitable. As a profitable trader I am aware of all the tactics used by brokerages to stay float…. and neither I want them peeking into what I am doing nor I want them to publish my reports…. This is a clear signal to profitable traders to stay away from Zerodha….. else over a period of time, you will end up making no money….

Like I have said earlier, it is more a learning tool that we are building and not really a copy trade thing that everyone is trying to make it about. Every broker has insights on what his clients trade. As I have told earlier, only people who want to be part of it should email us back.

First of all, By posting this as anonymous, you make your post less credible. Your views and perspective are welcome and we respect it. But i beg to differ for a couple of reasons:
1) You assume that traders will follow this trade blindly. While this should ideally happen for their own benefit, there are some key human elements such as emotions, individual personality that play the biggest role in trading…..My poison can be your medicine in trading. Plus the number of people following are not likely to build up enough volume to be able to move markets or trouble market makers.

2) All brokerages will automatically have the ability to slice and dice your data anyway they want. It is just a matter of running a few reports. So it is not unique here…..If you want that kind of protection, you will probably need to be a direct member of the exchange….Also trading is such a random activity that 2 star traders may be in completely opposite positions and still making money based on the strategies they deploy…..There are too many variables for a brokerage house to depend on star traders for front running or leveraging. The way i see it, this is a risk that you would carry but it is a risk that i wouldnt bother about…..My positions are highly insignificant compared to the market (Though i dream that someday i could move markets:)) ….

I think this is a great innovative idea from Zerodha……Yes, it is a good start and ofcourse based on many suggestions above, it will have room for improvement. So full marks there…….

great news to investors of zerodha….i deeply appreciate the step,,,,ur kite platform was superb…recently pending order icon was missing…it was there before u added market watch….plzzz check it. In PI if zerodha could provide 5/15/30/1hr duration menu in a single window of the chart like we do in kite…it will be very helpful…rest of the thing zerodha rocks…

nice initiative…congrats.
(1) when the trades et al open up for the public (customers of zerodha) the full p&l etc need be private.
(2) the market is made of “Bull” and “Bear” struggles for supremacy. Since the “Stars” positions/holdings/trades is to be made open, need to take care that the clients of zerodha (followers) dont go contra trade to force any opposite move of the underlying.
My view only.

Doing great help to traders.
I like kite because of its simplicity.
It will be wonderful if you can provide buy and sell options on the charts in kite.
I know it is available in Pi , however Kite is very simple and elegant.

1) for alert other than SMS and email … I think a pop up in KITE or PI itself will do this fastest way!
2) The Star track record Profile should be comprehensive and if possible in one page like myfxbook. Please see the images attached here.
3)Any Star should have zerodha rating as well as follower rating depending upon his performance.
4) Any Zerodha 60 days challenge winner trader should be able to claim Star or atleast Winner position., which should enable him to start his follower business, this way he will be more focused on making right decisions to keep his herd with him.
5) There should be separate options Follow a star , or follow a zerodha 60 day winner. Zerodha may share its 10% revenue generated with zerodha 60 day winner if he gets some following and this way if more brokerage is generated. This is just like zerodha referral scheme. This way if anybody decided to follow a winner he may not have to Pay the subscription charges. Due to brokerage sharing the charges are taken care of themselves. But If one follows to many winners there may be issue with how and which winner will be paid. So for that I suggest give an option to let the user follow one and only one winner on any given day and thats all.
regards,

“Nithin Kamath
The quantities will not be shown directly. And like I said, the idea is to make this a learning/education initiative. The best way to learn driving is by sitting next to a good driver.”

I can understand, the strategy of a trader will not be made public. But a follower needs to know the rules and the rationale the trader follows for her/his strategy. Will those be disclosed to the follower?

I want to join Opentrade as a Star trader (have emailed to you). If at all I am shortlisted, only following my trades blindly will not do the followers any good. They will need to understand the rules and thinking I apply to my strategy.
Also, I will appeal to you, don’t just go with the profitability of trader. Get to know if the trader has any system in work, what does the trader expects from the system, what should the followers expect from the trader, the profitability parameters of the system etc.

Super thinking. First making Nil brokerage on delivery trades and now this knowledge following..absolute super..
You are doing things which full service (meaning expensive) brokerage houses are not even thinking at this stage..

The Star traders will have loss making months and profitable months. As happens with trading, the followers will tend to ditch the Stars they follow after a loss making month, without knowing the overall picture of the trader and then may lose out on the profitable months that would eventually follow. They would tend to jump from one star to other and would end up with trading losses as well as the fees they pay. A follower needs to understand the bigger picture, the philosophy the star.
Traders is a group of jumpy people, isn’t it? I should know, because I too have gone through that phase myself.

Hi Nithin, open trade is not good idea. One should analyse market on their own, and build their own strategies. Jst blindly following profitable traders won’t work good. No successful trader likes to disclose his trades to other traders. I’m successful trader of zerodha

It’s a very good idea.Traders having bigger heart will definitely tends to help others.There are so many peoples having time & money constraints. Peoples are there who lost lots of money in trading.They wants to trade but not having sufficient time or money or knowledge. If some big hearted successful traders will help these traders & will become there Guru,what is the problem???

Open Trade Platform should be very good initiative. But you should start a some trading classes for Trader because when we should see the market from outside it looks very Better after trading make financial losses.

Your idea is great boss. But my suggestion is if u can make another option like copy opentrades.your brand will be the no 1 in the indian market as well as international,bcoz in meta trader copy EA option is available but still in indian market their is no broker providing same service. I think if you will think about this the more HNI outside india will think about your platform.

Great news for traders like me having time & money constraints.
Nitin sir suppose I know a successful trader Mr X on having Zerodha account.
He is also a Zerodha winner.If his name will not be publish how can I identify that person ? In sprite of all these it’s great step.

Hi Nithin,
Just an idea to improve the Open Trade as a day trader:-
Without showing quantity of open positions/holdings, you can show the % of total margin used & update it with every trade, u can use a pie chart too. Then it would be more helpful to learners/followers and give inside info about money management.
Knowing the % of free money in hand to compensate the MTM loss or to add position is the key to money management. By margin used Trader can easily know an aggressive position too. But you must charge little extra for this, as value added service(money management) for showing % of capital used.

Rather than choosing a set of star traders, All the Zerodha Trading challenge winners should by default qualify as star traders and list them all whoever are willing to participate, and over a period of time a leadership board with automatically emerge…

Rather than selecting stars.. zerodha should define parameters to build the leadership board.. let the leadership board be formed in a nature way… Dont give anyone undue first movers advantage.. give all zerodha challenge winner A Star status.

There are trillion of stars in our Universe, makes sense to have 10000s of stars in zerodha’s opentrade skies too.. 🙂

What about MM (position Sizing) ? This is heart of trading. Say I am following a trade of a star , then I should also know his MM. If he is betting 1% of his capital and some follower bets 20% then results will be opposite.

If the trading size in terms of % of capital is also known for the trade, then we can really learn about position sizing that the star uses, as well as how he employs pyramiding his position or scale-in, scale-out (if at all). Absolute quantities or amounts are of course not required, just % of trading capital is enough.

If I follow X star and trade his 100% trades than I will become star too. I am sitting with the driver and I know who is driving but other people doesn’t know who is driving so it could happen that someone will sit besides me since i am not driving.

Compound interest of only 20% per month can generate 10,000% end of the year. Consistency is the key in the long run.
Beginners can try to learn about risk control by analyzing every trade rather than just copy trade. Beginners waste thousands of money in useless seminar, open trade idea could be much better with small fee.
Thats why its name is open trade. not copy trade. Good thinking.
Although, open trade would be popular soon only when a consistent trader registered here.

HC sir, I did not understand your concept of 20% compounding/month. If you have the time, can you please explain it in detail. I am a new trader and these things are new to me. It would be of great help of you can explain this concept, many thanks! Rajesh

Hi rajesh,
U can go through the link to see how a consistent return about only 20% per month an add up to big return in 12 months. Put annual interest rate 20%, number of year 12.http://www.thecalculatorsite.com/finance/calculators/compoundinterestcalculator.php
The key to success in the long run is consistency, to keep draw down (max % of loss from top) smaller. We don’t need to take big risk in a single trade. A consistent trader can easily protect profit and the capital if they don’t take big risk in a single trade. Someone can earn 200%-400% in 2-3 month then loose it all later. This happened to most of traders. But a good trader has risk control in place, there is 22 trading days in a month out of which 5-6 trending days. My personal opinion is a consistent day trader can have loosing day, loosing week but it is rare to loose a whole month.They try to minimize the draw down first by taking minimum risk, then capital automatically increases slowly by compounding. So look for consistency first(min draw down). Best Wishes..

Hi Nitin- Opentrade is such a lovely innovation and an amazing idea. Thanks for giving us an access to the trading strategy of some of the stalwarts of intraday trading. The only issue i have is the lag in getting the alerts. I am also not getting any SMS alerts. Can anybody please look into it?

hi NIthin ,
first of all its very good initiative for all loss making indian retail traders.
but i would like to know few things on it .
see , there are 100 ways of trading .like [ cash , fut , orption ] with [ intraday , positional ] with [ stock , index ] with [ with hedging , without ] … like that many …
so , if i take permutation of all above , there could be many ways to trading .
and every strategy involves with a particular amount . i might not have that much amount of money .
so , how do i know , which STAR is ideal for me ?
which Star’s trading pattern is similar to me ?
Regards
debjit

What will these reports show?
For example, if the star is a Nifty trader, can we see the average Nifty points gained per month? And the max gain, min gain (or loss) of points achieved for any month?
This will help decide better by leaving out quantities and the compounding effect of returns etc.

Nitin Sir i just opened a account with zerodha, i feel very happy with brokerage and your services. All is good but i need to learn the art of trading through technicals. I ask Zerodha experts so many times to guide me through technical indicators and charts but they always say that you have to learn it yourself, Will you pls start some training through teamviewer. So that new traders like me can learn technicals as it is very difficult to understand technicals from theory it needs practical hands to explain. I put some trades on Expert Advisors but scrip goes the other way. Pls guide through expert advisors which strategy is best to use, as sometimes it give you sell signal but rest of the day never give buy signal but scrip goes up. How it happen.pls put some light.

Its good that you are working on the challenging conditions of a retail trader.But kindly make sure that your data is up to date and exactly matches with the candle sticks.I don’t know other traders have noticied it or not.

Let me give a real time example.

If we use any third party softwares like Ami Broker,Meta Stock,Investar India or our own free Google Finance,the Open,high,low and close of each candle at any given time frame of 1mn,3mn,5mn,daily should match with your data in PI or Kite.Unfortunately data mismatches between open,high,low and close.Kindly rectify it as it gives two different support/resistance in each terminal and creates a harrasment in taking decission to take a trade.

Hi Nithin,
I am trying to learn trading from 5 years but haven’t been so close to success as in last few months with Zerodha, I am still making losses but slowly all is making sense to me..thanks for all these innovations and super Q and PI.

Hi, I’m new trader at zerodha and have a query which still remains unanswered by your demo/sales team.
Plz explain how to put order using stop loss:
Assume stock is at 100.

– Place a sell order if the stock hits 105 or above (don’t want to place limit order as this might remain dormant)
– Place buy order if the stock hits 95 or below (again don’t want to place a limit order)

– Do i need to place a sl or limit sell order if the stock hits above a trigger point and vice versa for buy order

– SL selling order with trigger price as 105 and limit price as whatever price u want the order to be sent
-SL buy order with trigger as 95 and limit as the price at which you want to send this order when trigger is hit.

It would also be helpful if the stars can share on what bases they pick a particular trade/stock. They can share this at the end of the day if that is possible. This will be helpful for the followers in terms of learning.

sir,
1.Early morning telephone lines are too busy so for intraday trader it is a big challenge .
we need to wait for longer duration, so please increase number of telephone lines .
2. Charges for telephonic order are too high please revise it , its more then brokerage which is not a good will gesture.

Ratan, have you tried kite.zerodha.com on your mobile browser? It works very well, you will not need to reach our call center. There is a huge overhead for us in terms of people employed to support call n trade desk, don’t think it is possible to reduce the Rs 20.

Great Initiative. Got to ensure couple of things.
1) Need to make sure there any no regulatory issues in displaying star’s buy/sell to followers?
2) Got to have agreement signed with stars for the above reason.

Hope we have at least four to five stars for each category…equity / FnO / commodity / Forex.
3) Have the stars been identified already? I am waiting to be contacted :), so if you say identification is over, I can concentrate on other things 🙂

What is the stratergy to introduce the stars. How often will a new star come in, if the existing ones dont fare better. It is better to start with many stars, than to introduce someone after two three months. Also the quant report of the star since becoming a star , is more important, than his/her past…just a suggestion

Regarding the new collateral policy, assuming I currently have 1 lakh as cash margin, can I not take positions with margin requirement more than 2 lakh irrespective of how much collateral I have ?? (if I don’t want to incur an interest debit)

You can take position for the entire cash+collateral component. However interest will be charged if the cash component for the position you’ve taken is lesser.

Eg: If you have 1 lac cash and collateral worth 12Lacs, you can take positions upto 13 lacs. If you end up taking positions for 10 lacs, interest would be charged on Rs.4 lacs of cash (10lacs*50% = 5 lacs, cash in account = 1 lac)

Sir the success of open trade is mostly depends upon the participation & response of all kind of traders.I just wish to know how are the responds from successful traders.
Further approximately how many traders will be there in each specific categories such as intraday equity,intraday positional,NFO,currencies, Commodity intraday & positionals……

Many congratulations on your new superb initiatives – I am surely your biggest promoter ☺ I have few questions on regulations. As you mentioned somewhere in your replies that regulation may be a hassle to let people automatically “copy” a star trader. However, I am just trying to understand how is this different from star trader alerts that your system will generate given that regulations require anyone who offers/solicits any kind of advice should be registered with SEBI as an Investment Advisor. Wouldn’t opentrade be flouting these rules? Hoping to hear from you soon.

Tanveer, all the advice that comes through to others will be through Zerodha. So none of the stars will be directly giving out any advice, it will be as good as Zerodha giving buy/sell signals similar to what every brokerage gives, which is allowed by the regulators.

I have one feedback regarding open trade.
The Star trader should signify if the position is intraday or positional. This is very important as per my understanding. Suppose i am following a star trader – he or she might have bought / shorted with a time frame of 2-3 days and if i am trading only for intra day – i might not get profit by following that trader.

Every successful trader know that derivative trading is a zero sum game. Nobody buys the underlying security here, both buyer and seller share exactly same but opposite risks. So Open trade Result => bottleneck effect in trading.
For learning => Without knowing the thought process behind a trade how can it be used for? Any idea?

@Nithin – a small request, can we get the following options in Pi –
1. When a chart is opened, it opens with default indicators preloaded as per user preference
2. Option of dashed/thicker lines for moving averages and other indicators

please keep this thread limited to opentrade updates conversation. Eagerly I open this thread to see updates, but in between others post about charting, etc… i have go and search where is the latest update about OT.

Nitinji , release of new version pi is amazing , especially interchange in timeframe and interselecting stocks. Lot of thanks for Nithiji and Zerodha team , a small request if 1 hr and daily timeframe would be there ,great or if 1hr tf would be perfect , PLEASE consider . And also eagerly waiting for Open trade .

Hi Nitin,
Can you please provide any ETA or tentative dates for open trade .have been waiting since Jan 1st week. Still no news. Everyday many people come to see this thread with a hope but we are not getting any news.
Thanks.

We all hope this time we could be a part of it.hopefully it doesn’t get delayed further. 5 days to go for 1st March . also the way you guys keep the brokerage low the subscription price should be low as well. Only then our expectations will match our patients. Please don’t disappoint us with very high subscription price.

Let Zerodha take time to start Open Trade with all regulatory clearances,software,analysis of star traders performance,rules and regulations,fees structure,selection of star traders in different trade types such as options,swing,day trading etc.This is an important start up and let all things be perfect before they start. We should not put pressure on them to start early as we want this to be a helpful and long lasting step.

Will the subscribers be able to see the past trades taken by the chosen star. We don’t want only numbers based on which we select the star to follow. Also we need to see the trades in the sense entry and exit of trades taken in past by the chosen Star

I dont understand why u delay in every thing…u dont have decent mobile trading app yet …actually u told us near about 1 year ago that u come with great mobile teading app…u told us 3 month ago that u come with open trade… yet not…i thought u will come with open trade in jan 2017 or more…in such compition world…such things have no excuses….. accepting fast move from you…thanx…

Hi Nithin,
There lot of traders eagerly waiting for this program to rollout. It is very disappointing to see that there is no comprehensive update on the dates from zerodha. My advice is that zerodha is having very good branding in traders community. I wish you people will save that image and make good progress in your innovative product ideas. I am very much worried to see this open trade is getting dragged more than 2 months after announcement. Nothing stopping you to give proper ETA. Being I am zerodha well wisher this is my suggestion. There should be strategy to launch products and their communication. You guys are not any more start up. You grown Mich bigger. Its time to stand up to expectations in quality.

Srividya, Opentrade the platform has been ready long back. This was held back because of some regulatory approvals, which unfortunately is not in our hands. We were asked to make some changes in the way we are wording opentrade, I am hoping to have this up and running in the next 10 days.

Hi Nithin.
I have been using Zerodha from last two months and i thank you from core of my heart for making such a wonderful platform. I have a request to make Zerodha more efficient. Currently in Kite if i want to see Open Low high volume of any script i have to individually go into each script. There should be a screen where i can i see this information of my scripts. Like we have in PI. This is very important as per my view.
Thank You so much.

Nithin,
Thanks for giving clarity on dates. We apprciate if you can publish changes that being made to align with regulators compliance.

Just curious to know…

Can followers see star’s orders which includes executed, open, yet to trigger orders. And also positions of star?

It will be great if you can publish another article with comprehensive details. Because when you are normalizing the positions and their qty, followers should kbow how they need to manage their money. If you are normalizing positions of stars, you should also expose normalized funds of star. Then only follower can execute trade as per follower account capacity proportionately.
Some time follower can take call on not taking a trade if his account margin is not suitable for that trade.

I hope you would have thought of all these use cases.

It will be great if star can give explanation about their strategy as a annototaion. So that follower can learn strategy. This information can be shared after trade is closed also.

Hi,
Got a mail 2 days back from [email protected] which asked to download their app (WeProfit) which seems to be similar to OpenTrade where you can copy trades of other traders. The mail also said that this was an exclusive offer for Zerodha users. Are you associated in any way with this or you think its spam mail ??

Thanks for the Good News. Eagerly waiting to see the platform and its features.

Just want to know if we get stars who will be option selling in your stars category list.

I am sure this program is going to be successful and also Zerodha is going to attract significant amount of client base, only through this program. I wish all zerodha clients success in their trades using this platform.

I am happy that platform is starting soon. Looking forward to join and learn from the masters.

Star traders are divided into equity,day trader,swing trader ,option trader but will they take same type of trades in their accounts.If I am following a swing trader star and if he takes a day trade or scalping trade then I will be taking that trade too as l won’t know that it is for short term and not for swing. How I will know that it is not a swing trade ?

For initial few days please run interactive discussions on open trade in which stars also can participate under their star name so that star and followers both will have clear ideas information we get and expect. A star may not tell his system or interact once the project goes live and we will have to learn from the trades they take….

Hope it will be live by this weekend. More the delay, more the frustration of waiting. Pls dont wait to get everything 100% fixed before releasing. You can always fix / upgrade , add more things later.

Sir any revised ETA date when we expect to see the most awaited open trade Live date. In a day I check more than 1k times.I check my mail box as well hoping to receive invitation mail.every week we just hear 1 dreadful word hopefully next week some last minute issue. I hope you understand our impatience

I have opened account with zerodha last month
I am new to market
I am busy with my work, so I don’t have time to watch market and decide my trade
I’m waiting for open trade group to start and follow successful trader
Then I will start my trading
Hope you start in April

How to search stars who trade only or mainly intra day? There should be some user-friendliness in the open trade interface… user should be facilitated to quickly filter out the star he wants to follow…user can only see the profitability but not the historical trades of star trader … I need to see stars history before I follow him

In your earlier post you have mentioned we can have access to Star’s Quant reports and we would be able to see the trade history (Date, entry/exit & stop loss of past trades). The date when the trade was taken and the date when profit and loss was booked. Please advise/guide how can we see that.

Going through the stars. Had a question though and a suggestion –
1. The average profit/loss streak figures are way above the longest profit/loss streak figures. Are the average streak figures actually the total profit/loss figures for the period?
2. Please show some more descriptive statistics on the trades on the star profile pages as that would help in selecting the stars according to their performance and trade type and duration – like avg profit/loss per trade, avg duration in days or mins in case of intraday, std dev etc.

Absolute percentage returns for the last 90 days. There are a few who are on this list with flat returns. But if they are on this list, it means that they have generally been positive during the trading period at Zerodha.

Hi Nithin,
I have subscribed to one star today… But, I think considering the long weekend holidays, Zerodha must consider the subscription start date, from 1st April or at the least from Monday, 28th March… as an early offer 😉

Hi Nithin,
Seems my above message was overlooked… Please consider considering subscription start date as 01st April or atleast Monday, due to a long weekend and also to resolve any hiccups during the gestation period of the new launch…

I was checking the streaks of some traders. Their profitable streaks run in few crores and losing streaks in 90lacs!! If I had this much capital, I will put it in fixed deposit and set it to monthly interest withdrawal. 😀

Great initiative guys. Still deciding which 2 stars to follow for the first month. It is clear I can’t take most trades due to capital restriction. But maybe I learn few tricks.

what if I want to follow only intraday traders, Is there any function to filter the stars with their nature of trading? Because I don’t want to follow somebody who trades one or twice in a week and take delivery for thousands of shares.

Nitin,
The 90 days is a random stat to show profit %. Am sure choosing profit % for 365 days (year) will give entirely different picture. Also this %, gives a head start to only few stars. The rest all will be ignored. We should ideally start measuring the profit % once the platform is live.

If I am following 10 stars for 3 months and my past 90 days trade records are good. Although I am not taking exactly the same trades what stars I have chosen have taken. Later if I want to be a star can I be eligible to be a STAR

This is strange that I can not post images on z connect to explain my point…Few Weeks back My Antivirus was saying z connect has some virus or Trojan and it was not opening at all ??… From then on z connect has become unattractive to read with bright white background … In addition how do we add images to our posts … This option is also missing…Please do something

Positions:
>> As a follower, how one should take positions with 50L capital to follow the above star?

How much capital is being used for the taken positions? what is the remaining money for future hedging purpose? because Star may have different strategy to get into hedging trade to protect his position. so that there will some reserved capital.

NOW NEW TRADES…
alerts with below msg.
EXited partial NIFTY16MAR7500PE
how do follower understand, partial means.

Final Request
I would request you to be in the follower’s shoes and explain detailed approach, how follower can get follow star by using this data.

I bought a pack of 5 credits and only used 2, but now credits are reflecting as 0. How do we verify? Also when we choose the unfollow option does that particular credit go into freeze mode or will it continue till reaches its expiry period. Moreover can one single credit be switched among multiple stars till it expires.

Hi Nitin /venu
For example today is 1st jan and If I have taken 5 credits and following only 1 star then remaining 4 credit will be valid till what date and month. (April may june or it will remain valid for life time) Please clarify.

I have subscribed and following the star however i am unable to see the trade histor of that star how can i see the trade history. Where do i need to click to see the trade history. I need the trade history of the star .

Thanks for your response. Please note as mentioned I am already following a STAR but not able to that star trade history and trade details. Please advise where do I need to click on the link to see the historic trade details. Please advise urgently.

Dear Mr. Nithin,
You have already done great jobs through Zerodha.
Thanks a lot for offering such wonderful services

As being a existing client here I am suggesting to introduce “Demat Debit Charge Reduction Pack” which will allow equity positional/swing traders to reduce their expenses.
Like, if a client pays X rupees upfront then he/she gets Y no of free debits.
And your business model doesn’t encourage upfront charging then you can arrange for discount on bill amount of certain period.
Say, if a client generates Z no of debit (Rs 15.46 of each) at end of the said period then 10% discount. Higher the bill amount higher the discount

Hope you will assess the matter
With Warm Regards,
Arkendu Bikash Porel

I am unable to log in to Opentrade .On last step of trying to log into kite account it gives a message “invalid credentials ” though I am using my Zerodha ID and password which in normal course allows me to log into Pi as well as Kite.

Earlier there were 21 stars.Now I see only 15 stars.What happened to the remaining stars ?When is it going live means when can we see the actual trades of the star one follows ?

Zerodha needs to give more user friendly information for this wonderful idea to succeed.How about sharing a one page note on how to see the star information ,rules ,regulations,what more information can be shared and what cannot be shared.Good idea but packaged and marketed very poorly. Wake up Zerodha.

The stars who are down in the last 90 days are invisible, as and when they come back in the green, we will share the details. We will announce it to public sometime next week, and yeah will have a post on how to use it.

Hi Nitin San
I think the no. of followers subscribed to a stars should not be shown.It may discourage or pressurize the stars…I think u can understand it better.
Further heads up to all stars for their supporttive attitude to help new traders.

Thanks for your response. Please note as mentioned I am already following a STAR Pegasus but not able to that star trade history and trade details. Please advise where do I need to click on the link to see the historic trade details. Please advise urgently.

First Live experience with Opentrade – I subscribed to 2 stars last week. Today was the first time I was to receive notifications of trades. Unfortunately, the experience till now is not very convincing.

One star subscribed is a day trader and frequently enters and exit trades. First, there is absolutely no info on the usual timeframe of trades of the stars in the star profile page, so I ended up selecting a star whose trading style is very difficult to follow given the frequency of his trades and short timeframes. Something needs to be done about this. More info on trading style and a short anonymous bio of the stars focusing on trading style will help a lot.

Second, to top this the sms and email updates functionality is broken. Its not sending notifications on time. I got the entry sms for the first trade on time but got the exit sms 25 mins after the trade was exited. The next entry message was 10 mins late. The exit message of this 2nd trade is yet to come while the trader is now on his 3rd trade :).

I am sure these are early hiccups and the Zerodha team will improve the tool but a lot of caution is needed before the tool can be trusted.

I don’t think I am getting notification of Pegasus. Moreover, I do not think that the trader feed and position is being updated. You can cross-check with the trade entered by Pegasus and updates/notification sent/missing.

It worked yesterday and again no notification today of the long position carried over by Pegasus to next month contract at 3:27 pm. No sms, email and not even popup worked. I have already reported this to opentrade and support also. This product is still not stable. Great initiative but having implementation issues.
Today, I also noticed that the number of subscribers suddenly doubled (after my refresh during the day) in just one minute.
Also, the return of Pegasus was showing about 420+% returns yesterday and then today, it showed only about 320+%. Did he lose 100% in just one day (during the first day of new 90 day period) or was the calculation wrong earlier?

Problem #1
Although I was receiving sms/email notifications till 09:56 till today morning, suddenly the sms/email notifications have stopped from delivery… It’s very strenuous to keep watching the OT dashboard by refreshing the page continuously to ensure any new updates.. so as to not miss anything important (which I did) 🙁

Problem#2
We need to have an “Auto-refresh” on the Dashboard page.
Better would be- whenever a new update/trade is received it should automatically be updated without the need for refreshing the page.

Problem#3
The positions taken by Ursa Major today were in EQ. It wasn’t clear whether he has taken this in MIS Margin or CnC so as to be carried forward to next day… It was clear only after the close of the market that it was a CnC postion as the position is still not closed… Same is applicable for other positions by Ursa Major and Andromeda in FnO

Therefore, it should be clear if the star has taken a CnC or MIS position and also the conversion, if any…

Kindly look into the above issues (esp. 1st problem) at the earliest please..

The SMS/email gateway can be lagging. There are desktop notifications enabled, so as long as you have opentrade open in background, it should give a desktop notification. If you are not seeing this, send an email to [email protected]

Dear Nithin
Why can’t you show position size? % weightage is really confusing, how would you determine position size from % weightage, please explain with an example? Thanks, great initiative though and as always zerodha rocks.

I have subscribed 3 stars. 1st and 2nd day I received SMS of one star and no SMS received from other two. But there were live trades by the stars whom I haven’t received SMS. This is 3rd day, no SMS received so far. But there were many live trades all the 3 stars. This is really disappointing and confusing whether to follow or not. Also, no info about whom to contact for resolving these issues. Please look into this.

Big request for you. Please include stars which are positional traders. All present stars in the list are intraday traders. I am not learning anything nor I want to learn anything from them. Please do something.

If one wishes to filter like this —- Top Performer of the last seven days — his MIS orders are more than NRML orders — segment traded NSE equity… then how do you do that?? … Sorting and Filtering is Most important Feature we need.

Does Pegasus trade thru’ Zerodha terminal?
coz his avg trades shown are 13 per day…
but as of now he hasnt ever traded > 2-3 trades… or is his feed not being relayed?
Pls clarify..

Also, it would be good if you describe the style (NOT strategy/system) but style or philosophy of star traders
eg- he likes to trade Stock FnO intraday & is a scalper and keeps his trades for 2-10 mins… or .. he is a positional trader and takes his trades based upon so & so etc.. must be described with lil bit of his trading principles..

It is basically total account value for everyday, and then an average for the last 90 days. Total account value or net liquidation value = current value of his holdings + free cash+ value of options+ all margin blocked – any short option premium.

Regarding “avg number of trades”, is SAR calculated as 2 trades. Ideally, it should be calculated as 1 trade, as the star has to put in only 1 order (with double quantity). This will help subscriber to know if we need to put in less number of trades than suggested by the ‘avg number of trades’

Hi,
(Hope you take below positively with an open mind)
The trade feed from stars isn’t satisfactory and practically un-followable and there is nothing to learn from the trades neither earn consistently..

I am following 4 stars since 1 week…

One star trades so so so fast and so heavily that before we take positions he is in-out… It is humanly impossible to take his trades… It seems like an Algo is trading!! Seems he may be using an algo thru’ Pi bridge or similar (I think)

Other positional stars never book profits even if they be +100pts and exit at cost when stock comes back to entry… more surprisingly they keep “reversing their positions” frequently at entry levels and keep switching their stand in few 15-20 points (taking consistent losses)…

Even if we assume positional trades (Not taking 100+ pts profit and exiting at cost and then keep on reversing positions just for mere 15-20 pts. that too with losses)… This doesn’t look to be humanly normal!

For this I guess zerodha should provide additional feature as “Followers Rating” … How much followers rate him out of 10 or out of 5… Also if possible followers should write his experience/review following a star somewhere … so will you add a opentrade forum for that in which only zerodha members can sign in and discuss all about opentrade and stars among themselves ?

Is the profit based on average capital which includes free cash also? Or is it only based on required margin?
If it includes free cash and So, if any star keeps any free cash in account for drawdown, his profit percentage will go down? To show more profit percentage, he will try to withdraw and keep bare minimum.

Average capital = free cash+holding value+ margin blocked. But I guess people will know that a star making lesser returns with a lot of capital is a better option than lower capital with higher returns.

That’s for people to judge but then we can not compare star returns fairly. As a trader, i may be more comfortable keeping extra cash in account for drawdown and might be making more returns on my margin compare to another trader who is making less returns on margin but showing more profit percentage if he does not keep extra money for drawdown. To make fair comparison, profit should be calculated based on margin only and should be clarified in your tutorial.

Also, I agree that it should be net returns (as traders making more average number of traders might be making more gross returns but might be negative net returns or hardly positive returns). So, this is misleading.

Please try to think from perspective of subscriber as your data is misleading (not helping us to objectively compare the stars).

Showing gross returns without any expenses is very misleading & inflated. Actual Net returns may be very less or in negative after all expenses. Gross will always be very high with multiple trades within a day.

While trying to follow a star, follower is taken to login with zerodha account credentials and give undertaking to allow access to his account.
Why is a follower asked to authorise you to –
(1) access to his holdings/positions
(2) Account balances and
(3) place, modify and cancel orders

How will we know if a Star is trading or not (ie- on Hioliday) on a given day?

Maybe a “Welcome message” from the Star in the morning (after he logs-in) would be nice to indicate that he is trading, otherwise followers will keep on waiting & guessing for the whole day – even if the Star may be on a holiday 🙂 (esp. Intraday Star Traders)

Moreover, a brief pre-opening and mid/after Market outlook from Zerodha or Star will be good for all those who have subscribed to Opentrade.

I am following PEGASUS, CORVUS and URSA MAJOR.
Today (5-APR-16) I got SMS and emails only for the trades of URSA MAJOR and no SMS and emails for the trades of PEGASUS and CORVUS. Please look into this issue.

Average capital is to give you all indication of the account size on which the trading happens. % weightage indicates how much weightage is given to what position in his portfolio. So if someone has contract value of 5lks of nifty future and 5lks of Infy, it w